Drying-form for hosiery



G. 0. MORTON.

' DRYING FORM FOR HOSIERY.

APPLICATION FILED APPLB. ms.

1,323,642. Patented 1m. 2,1919.

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cuss o. Morison, or aocnroiinuttinors- DRYING-FORM ron HOSIERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 19159.

Application filed {kpril 6, 1913. Serial No. 227,005.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 'Lftris'r O. MORTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of WVinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drying-Forms for Hosiery, of which the following is a specification.

' In the course of, hosiery making, the

knitted article, whether a sock or stocking, 1s drawn in a dampened or WGt'COHChtIOII onto a form to be dried. vHeretofore, in

knitting mills the common practice-has been to employ. imperforate hollow forms, into which steam was supplied for drying the stocking by conduction through the agency of the heated form. however, is slow; and the primary object of the present invention is to hasten the dry of hosiery.

With this general ObJBC'B in mind, I have provided a hollow drying form, the effective drying area of which is of very closely perforated construction, so that a heating me dium, such as hot air, supplied to the interior of the foi gift-sill not be dissipated or spent as inv heating a heavy and imperforate form, but will be immediately vand directly ap plied to the knitted article, thereby drying the same most quickly and efficiently.

I have also aimed to orovide a dr inu'.

form of improved construction characterized by perforate sheet metal sides coupled together at their marginal edges by a smooth and continuous head, which serves as a guiding and shaping edge and facilitates drawing of tht stocking onto and removing it from the form.

A still further object of my invention is to providean improved drying form of the character described, which may be manu-' factured at a comparatively low cost and will serve the purposes desired in a most practical and effectual manner.

Referring to the drawings,'

Figure 1 is a side view of a stocking form embodying my improvements; and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1. V 7

Before entering into a description of the particular construction of my improvements, it might. be mentioned that the latter contemplate the use of drying forms of any shape desired. That is, in this art it is comnoon practice to shape the form to suit the particular knit-ted article. The form may,

This drying process,

therefore, be constructed for drying and shaping a sock, stocking, mitten or any other knitted article. In the present illustration of my improvements I have taken as an example, a form shaped to receive and dry a womans fashioned stocking, it being manifest as just explained, that the invention is in no way limited to this particular shape of drying form.

Itis desired to shape the form so that the knitted article in a dampened or wet condition according to the nature of the preceding processes, maybe drawn onto'the form and dried to the shape thereof. Since socks and stockings are thus dried in very large quantitiesin knitting mills and the operation of placing and adjusting the knitted article on the form ai d removing it therefrom is performed by hand, it will be plainly evident that the form must be so shaped and constructed as to allow the performance of these operations easily and quickly. The shape and character, therefore, of the exterior surfaces of theform andespecially of the edges thereof are of considerable importance. The body of my. improved drying form is constructed of relatively fine gage closely perforated sheet metal sq as to offer the least resistance to the passage of a heating medium therethrough. Asshown in the drawing, the body of the form consists of sides 4: and 5 cut to the requisite shape and :torined so as to meet at their marginal edges the entire effective drying area of the form is very closely perforated and that the perforations might be graduated in size, with the larger perforations at the bottom of the form, to insureeven drying, although in practical use it is found that with perforations of uniform size throughout the length of the form the drying is sufficiently even and equally rapid for all practical purposes.

Means is now provided for securing toether t e marg al edges at the Sides. of

the form, for reinforcing the same, for propresent improvements of socks or stockings.

viding a rounded finished edge which :t'acilithe edges of the perforated sides are turned outwardly, providing a continuous flange or a shoulder behind which the'ends of the coupling member are engaged and securely clamped. The coupling member '9, as'noted in Fig. 1, extends entirely around the marginal edge of the form, thus providing a continuous sn'iooth rounded edge. This'couphng clamps and secures the sides l and 5 together 111 a very simple and substantlal manner and also reinforces the structures The bead-like coupling also providesa continuous smooth and rounded guiding edge- Which would be otherwlse diiheult to obtain if the closely perforated sheet metal sides of the'form' were oined together by any other means. The present construction, therefore, notvonly possesses various advantages, but isexceedingly simple and capable of production at a comparatively low cost. Forms of this characterare sometimes of sectional construction, that is, having interchangeable leg and foot sections, so that they may be adapted to stockings of dilierent sizes; My are 7 equally Well adapted to this style of drying form, although the general prac-tieewhere stockings are dried in large numbers isto provide permanent forms for various sizes and styles ,When the heating medium, preferably hot air, is delivered intothe lower end of the form it Will quickly emanate through the various perforations throughout the form and thus be, directly applied to the knitted 'article thereon, In, this Way the heating medium is not dissipated but applied in a most direct and efficient manner to the article and the drying is accomplished very quickly. Inthe practical use of my im:

provements, is found that socks and steels mgs can be dried in about one-fourth the, tlme required -W1l3l1 the use oi forms heretofore employed.

a clear understanding of my improvements and ofthe ob]ects preiaced above, and it should be understoodthat while Ihave illus- It is believed that the foregoing conveys trated one Working embodiment thereof, va-

rious chan es might be made in the constructionwithont departing from the spirit and scope of the inventioiras expressed in the appended claims.

I claim:

1, A dryin and'sha 'iing form comprising a panotperioratod metal side members meeting along their marginal edges and providing a hollow TOUT}, the marginal edges embracingsaid flanges for bindingthe sides together and providing a marginal guiding and shaping edge about the form. r i

2. A drying and shapin g'i'orm of the character described consisting-of side members of fiat material shaped to' jointly constitute a hollow form, and a combined shaping edge and coupling means formed of sheet mate rial to embrace and clamp} the marginal beingfiangedoutwardly, and coupling means edges oif'said side-members and providing an exteriorly smooth entire margnal length of the form;

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guiding and shaping suriiace extending about substantia ly; the 

